If only christians cared what counts as christianity and have missionaries preach modern values, even as christianity, instead of ancient biggotry... Maybe all the unavoidable death in Afriaca would actually lead to something.

Most feelings aren't mutually exclusive. That being said, what good would anger do? I don't live in Uganda or the United States, and nothing this white male europeans says or does will have the slightest impact on that community.

While I am disgusted and angered by this, I nonetheless see Scott Lively literally confirming Christopher Hitchens' thesis that religion poisons everything. Seriously, right at the end of this segment, he said "there are better Christians in Uganda" than in the United States because of their violence towards homosexuality. It's interesting that Lively's interpretation of what true Christianity is seems rather reflective of the time of the Inquisitions, when Christianity truly ruled the western world.

Strangely, it didn't make me despair and it didn't make me angry. I did laugh alot throughout the first half (I'm gay, and the idea that simply a picture of a dude giving someone a blowjob can throw hundreds of people into apoplectic convulsions of melodramatic despair is indescribably hilarious to me), but that's all.

This is a comic tragedy, and save for maybe some kind of underground railroad that gets gay people the fuck out of there, there's nothing to be done for these people. They are hopelessly beyond the reach of any rational discourse, lost forever in an endless sea of self-affirming delusion. Their deep ignorance, crushing poverty, profound inferiority complex with respect to the west, and TOTAL religious derangement, have converged into a ghoulish masquerade, where the intoxicating liquor of superstition has allowed the frustration and stupidity of an entire nation to freely sublimate itself into homicidal witch hunts and comically desperate moral panics. You may either laugh or cry and I've already done too much of the latter.

Anyway, I can't blame all those people lining the streets: they are a product of their education. I can't claim to be any better because if I had grown up there, no doubt I'd be one of them. (Well, I'd actually be one of the persecuted gays, but that's by the by.)

I feel helpless that I can do nothing about this. Such a rotten situation.

<span><p>Message for Scott Lively:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>For God's sake, stop taking offence at what others do in the privacy of their own homes. There is no "gay movement", and homosexuals (which, incidentally, does not include me) are not in any way trying to undermine heterosexual society, family values, or anything else.</p><p> </p><p>Stop deluding yourself that the private lives of others affect you personally and leave others, whose actions do not hurt you in any way, in peace.

Also check out this really horifying piece:http://www.hulu.com/watch/150328/vanguard-missionaries-of-hate

these insane religious nuts would rather harm other humans than examine their own shallow fairy-tale bullshit beliefs that are ruining other's lives.Fuck Religion. The sooner it dies, the happier humanity will be.